Comments on: Because things are going so very well for NASA right now

By: Tailspin Tommy

Tailspin Tommy — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:09:13 +0000

I dunno. Tempest in a teapot, me thinks.

And as I think about it, if (when) my wife dies I’d be hard pressed to think of a better way. Quicker, perhaps….

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:55:32 +0000

Had a friend in Saudi Arabia back in 1983 that died in a headon car crash with a camel(hey, they weigh in at about 2000 lbs). When found, his body had been stripped of all his gold jewelry, of which, as was usual for us oil field trash, there was quite a bit. The worst part was, he was probably still alive at the time, since the injuries weren’t enough to be fatal, but he was diabetic and,,,you get the picture. removing dead folks jewels is not nearly as bad as taking from a still living person and then leaving them to die in that desert heat. Now, THAT’S a crime,,,

GAry 7

By: Mark UK

Mark UK — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:25:12 +0000

It is one of the least reported types of crime and yet one of the most common ones. Whenever there are car crashes, plane crashes, big accidents and even small accidents all sorts of valuables dissapear. The opportunity is often to tempting. Nobody will probably pay attention and if you are part of the recovery team or helping out people are unlikely to want to accuse you. It’s sad, very sad…

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:02:01 +0000

It would be nice if the family could have the wedding ring back. On the other hand the fuselage of both shuttles should be sold piecemal at auction to recover some of the cost we as tax payers have sustained from the failures. They have a collectable/memoribilia nature to them and could at least get some money from them as well as souveigneers for those of us who grew up with Columbia. People for some reason confuse the setting of tragedies for the people themselves.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:04:09 +0000

I would put very little trust in a media story like this, that is now trying to sensationalize a story because it could not sensationalize it a few years ago. This is not an important story – it adds nothing to the cause or effect of Columbia’s accident. Cobb was right – the story would be damaging to NASA. Not because it would have pointed to mismanagement of the mission, but because the media would blow it all out of proportion and shift the focus from finding the cause and caring for the grieving families to who could the media embarass. Again, I don’t trust the media, who claim to altruistic in speaking truth, but merely capitalize on minutae that will get them the best shot at breaking that ‘big story’.

Cobb sounds like somebody who would not play ball with the power elite, and so now is being chastised for doing things that everybody else does.

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:15:35 +0000

>>>this is the organization that was supposed to have
>>>covered up a fake Moon landing?

Well… the aliens helped out with that one.

One has to raise the question: was the ring REALLY there originally? Is there a photo? Could it have fallen off on its own? Dunno… just seems like a ring could go missing easily in such an operation without assuming the worst.

Just pondering.

By: Chuck Anziulewicz

Chuck Anziulewicz — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:54:47 +0000

I don’t even want to think about such a sad episode as this … especially since I’m reading a wonderful book called Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space, by Chris Jones. The focus is on the three astronauts of Expidition Six who were stranded aboard ISS after the Columbia disaster. But the book also includes a potted history of the manned space program and the geopolitical forces that shaped it. Highly recommended.